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You've found your way here, likely, through the process of digression and reincarnation (either literal or allegorical).

WTF is going on is the question for the ages--and--it's hotly debate, exactly "WTF is going on".

 People with much to lose are sneaking and lying and paralleling the truth. You can learn more here:

https://t.co/DHf9IQLUYW

This was my 1st ever "interview on the internet". The man interviewing me has tragically passed away. Almost two years now probably. How sad.
So it's nearly impossible to discern just WTF is going on. They're tossing around huge military budgets just to manage such things.

I mean, here's a document from 2019, (22 pages), and it's alleging to explain how much is in the budget for 'counterintelligence programs'.
Here's the link, though I've not read it:

https://t.co/Eg10ogQqLg

Of course "counter-intelligence" is just a made up marketing word for "LIES".

So if they're budgeting in the billions, how in the HELL can we ever know WTF is going on?

And that's not the half of it!
AND if you DO figure out a tiny piece of WTF is going on, they'll attack you & troll you.(Using invisible robots of course). & they'll waste your time, & if you're not careful they'll ruin your reputation, especially if you talk of JEWS, which you're likely of course to do.
It would seem that JEWS have a BIG PART to play in "WTF is going on", or, perhaps they've used that BIG budget to just make it LOOK like Jews are involved. Yyou see how convoluted this gets? And now we're both anti-Semites--you and I--Because, I wrote about Jews, and you read it.
And perhaps it's not Jews, it's Jesuits. Or it's Freemasonry. Or it's the British Crown VS the Catholic Church. And this digression goes on and on.

IF you start listing people--and--you fail to mention the Illuminati, or the CFR, or the Council of 100, or Club of Rome, or...
The lesser known CNP, or maybe we need to add Saudi Royals, or very secret and powerful homosexuals... My god if you fail to list ALL of the possible players, then some well informed person on the internet will point our your flaws or omissions or your glaring bias, and now what?
I mean SERIOUSLY!? Now what. Do we try to address our biases or omissions? Do we accuse them of their own biases or omissions? Maybe we accuse them of being a SHILL?! Perhaps they ARE a shill, and they're actually an invisible robot just pretending to be a human on the internet.
Or maybe they're someone in an "asian" country, getting paid pennies a day to manage a whole bank of smart phones or computers, like these people we see in the photographs here on Google:
...and it goes WAY downhill from here man. I mean we can ask WTF is going on with more specify and it becomes a goddamned NIGHTMARE.

EXAMPLES:

✅WTF IS GOING ON W/ USA POLITICS
✅WTF IS GOING ON W/ COVID-19
✅WTF IS GOING ON W/ INDUSTRIAL FARMING
✅ "" "" "" W/ART
✅ "" "" "" W/ HYPERSEXUALIZATION OF CHILDREN
✅ "" "" "" W/ MEDIA PROGRAMMING
✅ "" "" "" W/ CENSORSHIP
✅ "" "" "" W/ THE WEATHER
✅"" "" "" W/ UFO'S/ALIENS
✅"" "" "" W/ THE CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORY
❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓❓
We can do this endlessly.
(Seriously!)

I didn't even scratch the surface right?

...and where are we now? We've made it clear we know FAR LESS of 'WTF is going on' than we did when I 1st started trying to answer your question.

I do hope this helps!
🤷🤷🤷
ps

It looks like I might have been prompted to write this thread by a BOT!

...oh the IRONY!
😅😅😅

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